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Originally Posted by EpsilonX

So, for anybody who has seen Decade...basically, what's it like? How does it handle the previous Riders? How MOTW is it? If it's MOTW, does each MOTW plot take place inside the previous Rider universes? Will it spoil anything from the previous Rider shows (even if they're AU versions of the previous Riders, it still could spoil major twists or reveals)? When I tried watching Gokaiger, I felt like my lack of familiarity with some of the returning characters was holding me back from enjoying the series to its fullest extent. If the only pre-Decade Rider series I've seen is Kiva, will I have that same issue? I hear a lot of people complain about Decade, what exactly is wrong with it? Anything I should keep in mind?

Sorry, that was a lot of questions

Decade fits the same general two-part pattern that Rider was using at the time: each AU world arc took place over the course of two episodes and then Tsukasa would move on. It's not very MOTW because monsters are rarely the focus, it's more about whatever storyline is going on in the world that Decade has stumbled into.

It's been awhile since I watched it, but I believe the only show that it really spoils is Faiz. All of the worlds are aggressively different from the original series so there's nothing to really spoil here - on Decade one guy was Agito, G3, and Gills instead of having those be separate characters, for example. With Faiz world it's again completely different (high school drama instead of young adult soap opera), but it does still include something about the main Rider that was a huge plot twist in the original series.

As far as what's wrong with it, Decade had some behind-the-scenes issues with the writing staff. Not Hibiki level bad, but it changed writers partway through and it's pretty clear that the new guy a) had no idea what the original plan was and 2) didn't give a damn. The show's ending is a huge mess that leaves a lot of stuff unexplained and all of the follow-up appearances by Decade only made things more confusing. It's an incredibly fun show* if you can turn your brain off and just enjoy the spectacle. If you try to get seriously invested in the story it's just going to leave you confused and annoyed.

* I am biased here because Decade was my initial gateway into Kamen Rider.